Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

E. W. KEEGAN.

TWO WHEELED VBEIGLB. No. 360,889. Pa tentedAp r. 12, 1887.

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N. PETERS Plluln-Lillwgmphcn Washinglnn, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOCH WOOD KEEGAN, OF ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,889, dated April12, 1887.

Application filed July 17, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ENOOH WOOD KEEGAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and Stateof Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Two-Wheeled Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following. is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of as much ofmy improved two-wheeled vehicle as is necessary to illustrate itsconstruction. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same; and Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the frame and the supports for the body, showing thebody in dotted lines.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Myinvention has relation to that class of two-wheeled vehicles in whichthe body is supported by cranks, which allow the body to reoeive alongitudinally-swinging motion, counteracting the horse motion; and itconsists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such avehicle, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, theletter A indicates the axle, to theupper side of which two V-shaped brackets, B B, are secured near thespindles, the apices of the brackets being clipped .to the axle.

The side pieces of the rectangular frame 0 are secured to thedivergingly-bent upper ends, D D, of the brackets, the downwardlycurvedinner ends of the thills E E being secured so as to form continuationsof the forward ends of the said side pieces, and the upwardly-curvedends F of two double-curved springs, G G, are secured by means of eyedclips Hto the under sides of the end pieces, I I, of the frame, havingtheir middle portions bulging upward.

Two side bars, J J, are clipped with their middles to theupwardly-bulging middle portions of the springs, and the upper sides ofthese side bars are provided near the ends with transverse bearings K.

The outwardly-bent ends L of two wide Serial Noisoaaio. (No model.)

double cranks, M M, are journaled in these bearings, the body beingsecured by means of transverse bearings N upon the under side of itsbottom to these double cranks, the central portions of the cranksdepending. It will thus be seen that the body will be hung down betweenthe side bars by means of the cranks, so that it will have alongitudinal swinging play, which,when the vehicle is in motion,willyield to the horse motion, preventing the latter from being felt.

The side bars will be supported by the springs, which have a slightmotion at their ends, so that they will yield to jars from obstructionson the road, and at the same time gitudinal direction, and the frame issupported above the axle by means of the V-shaped brackets, so as toraise the body sufficiently, the body being supported below the sidebars by hanging between the said bars from the double cranks and by thesprings being supported from the under sides of the side rails of theframe.

The vehicle will have an easy yielding motion on account of beingsupported from the cranks,and the springs,having a double curve, will besufficiently yielding to cushion all jars caused by obstructions on theroad.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- In a two-wheeled vehicle, thecombination of the axle, two V-shaped brackets or supports securedthereto, the thills secured at their rear ends to said brackets, across-piece at the rear ends of said thills and a crosspiece near theends, a pair of side springs secured at their ends to said cross-pieces,a side bar secured to each of said springs having bearings at each end,two double cranks pivotally secured in said bearings, and abody securedto said cranks between and below said side bars.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

R. G. SMITH, T. L. SrILwELL.

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